Some of the security vehicles provided by South-West states for the Western Nigeria Security Network, Operation Amotekun.
Amid final preparations for the take-off of the Western Nigeria Security Network, popularly known as Amotekun Corps, governors in the South-West geopolitical zone are set to inaugurate committees to determine the modalities for recruitment and training,A highly placed source in one of the state Houses of Assembly in the region told one of our correspondents that the committees’ sitting and reports would recommend when the recruitment would start.
He said, “It has not been signed into law. It is like an executive bill that went to the Assembly and it has come back, so the governor will have to look at it to see if anything was changed or added before he will sign. I do not know whether the recruitment forms are going to be printed or when that will be done, all I know is that with the speed it is going now it may not be too far.”
The initiative, which was launched on January 9, 2020 in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, was first muted at an earlier summit convened by the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria in June 2019, where it was agreed that the corps was necessary. The governors had also pointed out that contrary to insinuations, the corps would not be used by political leaders as tools of intimidation, and that they would not be attached to prominent citizens and religious centres.
Also speaking on the recruitment of women into the corps, the Lagos State Information Commissioner, Omotoso, told one of our correspondents in an interview on Friday that the state would also engage women as it had done with the existing Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps. The herdsmen had initially expressed their reservations about the Amotekun initiative, claiming that it was aimed at flushing out members of the Fulani tribe from the South-West. But the South-West Governors’ Forum had dismissed the claim, saying it was misplaced.
The source said, “Never! That is not going to happen. What is their business in this matter? Let them go and render that service to secure their places. It is not going to happen. I don’t think there is any state that will consider non-Yoruba and there may be some discretion but certainly not for herdsmen.Also, Omotoso, who was silent on whether members of Miyetti Allah would be considered for recruitment into Amotekun, promised that everybody living in the state would be protected.
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